Chicken Coop #1: More to come

This is far from fine woodworking, but I feel the need to get something up here and start talking about what I have been working on in my new shop with my new tools. While I bought my new stuff to make boxes and furniture, it turns out that you can also make chicken coops with a Jet Proshop. Pic at bottom.

My wife and I decided having a flock of 6 chickens for egg laying would be a fun way to get closer to the food chain and make us more aware of how our food gets to our table.

Of course I could have ordered any number of premade coops or gotten plans for one. However, I decided it would be more fun to design my own. The picture is of it in mid-stage where the framing is done but it still needs to be shingled, painted and have the doors put on.

I can’t wait to get back into finer woodworking but this has been a fun sort of project. Please feel free to leave comments.

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Nice job Gus. I suppose the lid lifts for extraction of eggs? Have you got any pics of the innards? Are you going to put it behind a wire pen or something? My brother has the dickens keeping all kinds of animals out of the chicken coop. Sorry for all the questions.